Saw Paranormal Activity, and honestly, the whole “unknown entity fucking shit up” scares me more than the big guy with the mask and the machete, or the Freddy, or the murderous doll, and even the J-Horror iconic creepy child doesn’t do it for me anymore. That movie was kind of a breath of fresh air, a ghost/demon movie done well and not outright shoving physical creatures as your face and saying, “HERE! BE SCARED!”

I’m actually going to see PA2 tomorrow with my friend, and we’re really excited. And this review just made me more so. It’s good to hear what it’s going to be like, and while the whole “demon” thing becomes a much more prominent theme, like the end of the first movie, I think it’ll be good, especially for, as you said, the plot. And I think the prequel thing works pretty nicely if you liked the “OOGGIDY-BOOGIDY” ending of the first one, and even if you didn’t like it, you could say, “Well, I guess she had to have gone somewhere after being possessed.”

Although definitely, preferred the police ending over the face-scare ending. And literally, a few minutes ago, right before you mentioned it, my friend talked about the throat cutting ending and I had NEVER seen that one! Off to do that right now, but great review Spoony, excited to see the movie, and really excited to yell “FUCK NO.” when it injures the dog. >:D

I guess i’m going to have to watch this just to see the dog. Dang.

I’d like to see one of these movies where the “knowledgeable” Hispanic/wise old woman etc. turns out to be working for the evil entity…

looks good.

soon spoony’s review will be just as long in length, as the movies hes reviewing.

I don’t usually watch these kind of movies but I might just go see it for the dog

WTF a good sequel?

WTF a good sequel?

Are you gonna do a review of Poughkepsie (sp?) Tapes?

I do not lay awake at night from strange noises or pesky imps! Because I have a Mexican Girlfriend!

PA2 was really good but not by itself. see the major fault of sequels is usually A) It has nothing to do with the first one and just kinda has its own little story with the same characters or B) It just takes the faults of the first one and somehow expands it. PA2 on the other hand was really odd in that it really relied completely on the first one. Kinda like Terminator and Terminator 2 however PA2 wont make sense without seeing the first one cuz, based on how its written, the plot points cant really be discussed just outright. It couldnt be like “Hey wife character, werent you haunted as a child for no reason similarly to your sister who is experiencing it now.” “Why yes i was husband character” It would feel realistic especially cuz its a prequel.

However i was able to figure it out the second i saw Micah and Katie again (and even perfectly called the pussy joke) and basically this movie is filled with jump scares. Yes they are good and well thought out however at the end of the day the movie was just trying to say “Boo!”

The major fault of the movie for me was the audience. its one of those movies you need a smaller audience with so you dont have as many stupid ass ppl being stupid asses. I swear to god i heard like 10 ppl just in my row not getting the movie and just saying stupid shit.

I think PA had an alternative ending where the chick kills his husband/boyfriend and starts to sway next to the bed and in the end, police come by to check out and report a dead body which can be heard.

I like that ending over the original.

Great review! I’ve found it ironic in horror movies how we can watch our own kind, people, get hacked up, mutilated and so on, and still enjoy it. But yet if animals get harmed we get mad! I’m the same way though. People in the movies deserve it! But animals are awesome!

To hell with demonologists or incense, I’m calling in the dudes with the unlicensed nuclear accelerators if this kind of nonsense starts going down.

I hate horror movies, but your positive reviews make me want to watch some of them. Of course, I’m sure that if I tried I’d be reminded what a chicken I am (or should I say chicken wuss? ba-bum-pish), but still…

So let’s say I despise the original and found not one scene beyond the cheap jump scares in some of the endings scary. Would you recommend this one?

I’m hispanic and my advice would be to get the fuck out of the house & don’t invite me over to help you! It’s less spirituality and more like common sense.

I always like inspecting Spoony’s condiments during these vlogs.

I always like inspecting Spoony’s condiments during these vlogs.

I enjoyed this film. This movie is not for everyone and I do agree with others that this film is not really as scary as many other movies. Paranormal Activity 2 is more of a theater movie for me. Take your girlfriend and have her hold you when she get’s scared.

I see your salad dressing, Spoons! And your Rice-a-Roni. You dirty, dirty girl.

I find Spoony’s logic hilarious.
Hockey masked, machete wielding maniac breaking into your house = not scary.
Floors creaking and slow rocking doors = scary.

I find Spoony’s logic hilarious.
Hockey masked, machete wielding maniac breaking into your house = not scary.
Floors creaking and slow rocking doors = scary.

Y’know what, yeah. I’d look at you weird for a cryptic thing like that, but if it came up, about the only reason I’d wait to chuck that lemon would be in order to walk to the store to buy one.

Anyways, much like the first one, it’s really not my kind of movie, but with your recommendation behind it, if my girlfriend was watching it, I’d probably just go into the next room over rather than the next house over XD

Y’know what, yeah. I’d look at you weird for a cryptic thing like that, but if it came up, about the only reason I’d wait to chuck that lemon would be in order to walk to the store to buy one.

Anyways, much like the first one, it’s really not my kind of movie, but with your recommendation behind it, if my girlfriend was watching it, I’d probably just go into the next room over rather than the next house over XD

I saw a review on The Escapist (good ol’ Movie Bob) that didn’t put Paranormal Activity 2 in such a kind light. I suspect I’ll have to see this one to make up my own determination, as I enjoyed the first one for most of the same reasons you listed, Spoony. It’s going to be a Netflix selection, however, and not a movie outing.

You know, they used to believe that you’d become a vampire upon dying if you had red hair. Makes about as much sense as fighting demons with lemons.

Oh Spoony, you are a god among gods. I went and saw this with the BF and another friend, and half the experience was ruined by lame-o teenagers jumping at EVERYTHING. No, not jump-scares, but by PEOPLE WALKING IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM. It was total BS.

All the same, I loved probably as much as you did. The entire theatre was jumping in their seats during certain “scares.” The BF hated the “Cloverfield” shots (in the basement), but oh well. The other friend was grasping on my arm like he was gonna die from this frickin’ scary movie. THAT is an impact, my friend.

Personal favorite (spoilers): Getting dragged down the stairs, just like the first movie. Then wrestling free, but NOPE, MORE DRAGGING DOWN THE STAIRS. HOLY SHIT!!! Was NOT expecting that! Admittedly, I was disappointed in the fact that there wasn’t any “stuff is happening in this realm but not in the ‘mirror’ realm” despite the promotional pictures, but oh well.

And I think the fake scare you were thinking of was the husband doing the “lolz esploding pool cleaner” bit? But I could be wrong.

Personally, when they revealed that it was a prequel and we got to see Micah again made me happy. Katie and (not so much) Micah made me like this movie way more. Babies don’t do it for me, nor did the actress playing Kristi. The dog, though… I was ready to cry when it tried to tackle the demon and made that god-awful sound. Poor puppy. :(

It appears you’re feeling better, judging by the amount of videos you’ve put up lately ( haven’t had a chance to watch them yet. ) I’m glad. You amuse so many people, I hope you can keep it up despite whatever’s ailing you, man.

SPOILER AGAIN: The point at which the sister/wife is staring through the kitchen window (for no apparent reason) stands there for a few seconds and EVERY DOOR IN THE KITCHEN FLIES OPEN… The ENTIRE THEATRE, skeptical or not, jumped in their seats. It was awesome.

Thank you for reviewing this. I’m happy to see I’m not the only one who thought that it wasn’t total bullshit. Gonna go vote for you at the Mashables again. <3

It seems that if you’ve got something haunting you, you can always find a compendium on demonology that is 100% accurate and incredibly detailed.

I think it’d be incredibly funny if someone got it wrong and instead of “yeah, just get’em to swallow some salt water that’s had an old wooden cross soaking in it for about half an hour and that shit’ll be gone” you get “Thou must take the possessed into the house of god and henceforth brand the mark of the cross on their skin seven times before dowsing them in holy water and electrocuting them with a 1000 volts.”

Being Latina (Puerto Rican) I will tell you, on the demonology stuff, YES. Because either someone in your family practices Santeria or knows someone who has a family member who does. Glasses of water behind doors to keep out ghosts and all that stuff. That’s hysterical.

I just saw PA2 last night with my fiancee, first off I would like to agree with Spoony that it was done very well. I have to hand it to the filmmakers. The dog and the baby were the best of the ensemble, especially since those two types are usually the most difficult. I also have to agree that a bit of the movie seemed fakey. In my eye, most of the hand-held camera stuff once the haunting began seemed fakey. I mean, why would you pick up the camera and film some of that particular stuff. I can understand the night vision at the end, because the husband needed to be able to see in the dark, but the stuff with the daughter surfing the web for haunting FAQs didn’t sell me. There were other bits as well where it seemed the adults seemed to anticipate the coming scare. There’s a scene where the wife is waiting for her teapot to boil so she sits at the island and reads a magazine. She places her cup on the island’s counter then moves it further away from her. Why? So she wouldn’t knock it over when she jumped out of the seat when the cabinets burst open. And speaking of that cup it somehow disappears when the camera angle changed from the kitchen to the living room. And on that note, there are a lot of continuity errors within that damn kitchen. Such as the pots being on different hooks, stuff on the island being in different positions or even removed entirely or set aside by the sink. Here’s one that stands out: when the wife get possessed and the daughter calls the dad, we clearly see a bowl of apples on the island. After the dad arrives, and sees that somethings wrong with the wife, we see that somehow the apples have been moved to the counter and there is a cutting board on the island. (as sarcastically as possible) oh I’m sure in their concern about the wife and then calling the mystical Latina housekeeper Martine (een) they found the time to casually move the apples and get out the cutting board to prepare dinner. There are others, but that one just stuck out the most to me. Also going back to the teapot. When it is whistling there is no steam spewing from the spout. I am an avid tea drinker ( a tea toddler if you will) and as the case, boil the water for my tea in a kettle. When it whistles there is always steam, but not in this movie. Plus it happens too fast. It takes much longer for water to boil than the movie showed. It’s mainly because of the many continuity errors that I was unable to suspend my disbelief. Of course I went in without it being suspended. However my fiancee went in thinking it was real and until she began to notice the errors as well, was thoroughly scared by it. They rarely checked the security footage. If I was in that house I would so be checking the footage every day to see what the egg was going on. But they don’t, and a lot of stuff wouldn’t have come up if they just checked the damn video. One big thing that urked me was that the movie prepared you for the scare. Before each scare, there is an crescendoing bass rumble. I think it would have been scarier if we weren’t prepared for it. And of course the obvious CG baby in one scene. This also goes to a continuity error in which we see the baby asleep in the middle of the crib as the dog hears a noise down stairs. The dog goes to investigate and the camera follows. When the camera returns to the baby’s room, not a few seconds later, the (CG) baby is now at the head of the crib. This is where the demon drags the (CG) baby and lifts him up against the bars at the foot of the crib. The CG effect was close but no cigar.Enough talking about what I didn’t like. I like how until the latter part of the movie, it plays on everyone’s natural fears of the unknown. Noises, doors open, a baby mobile that moves when no one is looking, etc. I really like that there is no music. It helps with the realism that the filmmakers were going for. Even during the credits, it was just that rumbling noise that accompanied all the scares. Oh BTW my favorite moment was when the husband scared the wife and daughter with the pool cleaner. I knew it was coming from the way the shot was set up. i sat in my chair thinking “immature jump scare in 3..2..1..” and splash I was right on time. But I still enjoyed it. Like I said, the acting is really good, it seems real rather than rehearsed, apart form the aforementioned teacup incident, and there is no uncomfortably shoved in backstory. Well there is some hint at a backstory what with the deal with the demon thing, and there is a bit where the daughter hopes that the haunting is actually the ghost of her dead mother. Just enough backstory to give a little dimension to a character without forcing it down our throats. I did enjoy this movie, but probably not in the way it was intended. On the whole I found it predictable, but that is mainly my own fault in my inability to suspend my disbelief. Since I never saw this as real, I was not scared by it at all (and in fact I’m not usually scared by horror movies of any type, let alone the found-footage genre) but subconsciously the themes of it scared me. Not in the movie itself, but once I returned home. Actually at my fiancee’s home. (but this had been going on since before seeing the movie) there is a closet door in her hall way that opens to a walk in closet and subsequently the attic. Recently when I’ve been over there, and no one else is around, the door will open by itself, and I’m the only one who sees it. I close it, but feel and eerie sense of foreboding. Well, after seeing the movie, the door opened itself to me twice within 15 minutes. I looked inside, there was no one. I got creeped out. So I have to hand it to the movie for planting the fear in me whether I was scared while watching it or not. Nice video Spoony, I’m a big fan. Actually I’m not sure if they do explain what happened to the dog. I suspect she died since she never returns. And what became of Martine? Where does the daughter live now? These are the questions left in the movie’s wake. Oh at the risk of rambling too long (too late) I really like the angles that the “security cameras” have. But why only 6. If I was afraid of intruders I’d have them all over the eggin’ house. Love the shot where dad is on the couch and the demonic Katie is standing in the background. I recommend this movie. It is great if it scares you. It’s great if it doesn’t scare you.

I feel REALLY stupid, because I JUST said, on the Paranormal Activity review, to go see this one…. I’m going down the line! OKAY?? xD

I feel REALLY stupid, because I JUST said, on the Paranormal Activity review, to go see this one…. I’m going down the line! OKAY?? xD

I actually liked this movie too, though not as much as the first! Although the reason why the husband didn’t say anything to Micah and Katie about the possession was because they didn’t exorcise the demon, but they “transferred” it to a blood relative of the wife, that being Katie. The husband’s daughter thought it was unfair to transfer the demon to Katie, but they agreed not to tell anyone about it. This was just one of the more theatrical plot points that kind of bugged me. I also thought it was kind of funny that the housekeeper would speak to them in Spanish, and they would speak to her in English and they would all understand each other. I don’t know… I guess her speaking a different language added to her being a “mystical Hispanic shamaness.” Or something. :P

Spoony: Is there any reason why you cursed more in this Vlog than in a lot of your others?

Spoony: Is there any reason why you’re cursing more in this video than before? I hate to say it, but I think that this is actually detracting from my experience with your videos and reviews. Otherwise, I’ve liked you since FFVIII.

I just think the “lots of cameras” stuff was the main failure of this movie.
It WAS a good idea, yeah. But WHY THE HELL do they always use the LEAST convenient angle when showing something?
Like the dog fighting scene, why not show the kitchen camera? Or during the last fight where the dude uses the cross, THEY ALREADY HAVE CAMERAS ALL OVER THE HOUSE, WHY SHOW THE HANDHELD FOOTAGE?
It just makes no sense! When you think this is “found footage”, you’d want to show the BEST FOOTAGE.

Also, I think is was waaaay too slow in the beginning and waaay to fast by the end. They could have explored better the possessed woman and cut a ton of useless footage early on.

The first one was way better, and I blame all on the camera use, using only one camera was much more effective.

Every time you said “fucking demon” all I could think of was Jason Lee in Dogma. “But I’m a FUCKING DEMON!”

I totally saw a different ending. The ending I saw was that the house keeper told them a ritual that would transfer the demon to another person but it had to be blood related. So the husband does the ritual against his daughters wishes. So they sent the demon to Katie. Then it goes to show Katie comes back at the end, she kills the husband by snapping his neck like a twig, and then goes upstairs and kills her sister and she takes the baby. The  daughter is not home so she is spared.

I think you would like to watch a movie called The Changling. If you haven’t seen it, I think you should. It’s a ghost horror movie, that doesn’t very, excellent camera views. It freaks me the hell out every time I watch it. Okay, here’s what it’s about:

When composer John Russell (George C. Scott) loses
his wife and daughter in a car wreck, he seeks solace by renting a
secluded estate outside Seattle. But the mansion is haunted by the
presence of a child who died there more than 80 years ago. Now, Russell
must find out who that child was — and why there seems to be a
cover-up about his existence.

 The thing is… if you’ve ever experienced unexplained creaking and doors blowing shut outside of a film, without out an explanation IT IS FUCKING SCARY.  It’s actually kind of funny how many other films have desensitized ourselves to these kind of experiences and have fallen back on gore as a last resort.

so you want a dog just like it hu? :p your new dog kinda looks like it :D

That’s how dogs are; they will do battle with the legions of hell to protect their family.

they kicked her out because the dad is atheist and doesnt believe in ghost